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  1. Re:Mythical gods and dumb beliefs on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Compromise. Allow them to name the facility after one of their gods and more importantly setup a scholarship in astronomy for native Hawaiians. In the future a few native Hawaiian astrophysicists or cosmologist would totally change the picture.

  2. Re:I give you the Kennewick man on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 1

    Kennewick man is an anomaly with no reasonable shared heritage of any contemporary tribe. I suspect the native american opposition to study of Kennewick man is an unreasonable fear of weakened land claims. Totally BS.

    When it was surmised that Kennewick man was caucasian I did like the neopagan group that claimed Kennewich man as one of their own and pressed to have their ancestor further studied.

  3. Telescope == Sacred on Amid Controversy, Construction of Telescope In Hawaii Halted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What could be more honoring, holy and sacred than a telescope peering out into universe?

  4. Objectivist utopia on The Dystopian Lake Filled By the World's Tech Sludge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds like an objectivist utopia

  5. Why??? on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: -1

    "Hacker Oscarv wanted a PDP-8 mini computer" the question needs to be asked... why? This is part of humanity I just don't understand. An infinite number of useful potential projects lay before me and the thought of playing around playing with or restoring 'vintage hardware' is just opportunity cost.

  6. Re:Kill dogs, why not people??? on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    Fair enough...

  7. Re:Kill dogs, why not people??? on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 2

    In all likelihood it was not the Roundup. In animals studies they inject or ingest glyphosphate directly into the animal without a statistical effect so a dog laying around probably would not be the cause. In fact the dog laying around then coming in the house where people pet the dog would end up probably get the greater exposure.

    Sorry about the dog none the less

  8. Re:At least Microsoft and Slashdot listen to users on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I don't think Gnome 3 is shit at all, plenty of people, including myself use it happily. Gedit? Its fine.

    Then I think you are in the minority. Case example. I set up a set of workstations with Centos 6 and Gnome 2. Several teams of visiting scientists and engineers with Windows and Mac background (none have ever used Linux on the desktop) were immediately productive and even commented on how well the GUI was to use.

    I started to "upgrade" to Centos 7 and Gnome 3 and they were lost and confused and starting getting complaints.... Intuitive things like "Why can't I just right click the application and add to the launcher?" or "where the hell is the minimize/maximize button - who in the right mind would remove that?".

  9. Oh oh Ted Cruz is going to be upset. on NASA Launches Four Spacecraft To Study Earth-Sun Magnetism · · Score: -1, Troll

    See the code words here... "weather" and "earth" in the same paragraph. This is going to tick off Ted Cruz and the extreme conservative republican base.

    http://www.nationaljournal.com...

  10. Maybe this explains Bill O'reilly's gaffs on Scientists Insert a Synthetic Memory Into the Brain of a Sleeping Mouse · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Maybe this explains Bill O'reilly's Walter Mitty moments.

  11. Ralphie You'll take your eye out with that. on Major Museums Start Banning Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    Or the eye of someone else or a priceless painting. Old memes never die they just get recycled.

  12. Re:As a fly, never try to negotiate with the spide on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    Snowden is a very intelligent individual.

    Right so intelligent that he unwittingly played a part in Putin's propaganda TV show.

  13. Re:A '70s idea whose time is long past on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    To implement this would require a change to the OS, file system, system utilities (ie ls, find, etc) and every content creation application out there.

    And then how would one do simple things like find all $filetype within the file system. It would invariably involve a shorted acronym for the file type that is provided to system utility such as find.

  14. Re:A '70s idea whose time is long past on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    And why can't malicious programs mess with the hidden file type attribute?

    The file extension is soooo simple and descriptitive... why would one want to add a hidden file attribute that requires a special application to change or set it.

  15. Clear proof of time travel on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 2

    Obviously an advanced life form has worm holed their entire galaxy to an earlier time.

  16. 3-D to 2-D display on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the fine article it provides a caption to the graphic

    "The bottom "slice" of the image shows the particles, while the top image shows light as a wave""

    Looking at the graphic the top image is a 3-D display and the bottom just a color coded 2-D representation with topo lines. I see nothing in this displaying the wave aspect and particle aspect. Mistake?

  17. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    Indeed evil will eventually turn on itself.

  18. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well then you must have missed the speeches and questions asked of the candidates at the recent CPAC.

    BTW the Afghanistan and Iraq war price tag topped 6 Trillion dollars! Wars started by the last presidency. And the same crowd is now asking for another war! And you talk about deficits... LOL.

  19. Re:I don't think Obama is really paying attention on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    That's like saying the KKK, Westboro Baptist Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, (insert dangerous cult here) aren't "real" Christians.

    Well there are plenty of Christians who would make that exact claim! Most Evangelical for instance will be happy to tell you the JW's are not "real" Christians.

    But that is not the point here. We are not fighting a war against any of those groups and Obama position is purely strategic. You need to know your enemy and this approach strikes directly at the image ISMS has made for themselves and throws water on the ISIS tactic of eliciting a religious war and invoking the crusader and other such rubbish.

  20. Paying it forward. on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The reason for the short term memory is that for the average voter the last two wars cost them personally _nothing_ and were if anything entertainment. Now if the president came out and said we are going to mobilize again to fight ISIS and a new 2015 tax of $200/person will be levied to pay for the war you would see a change of heart in minute.

  21. Re:I don't think Obama is really paying attention on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He says they just need a job, but a majority had jobs before becoming radicalized. They often have college too. So to come out and say it's not faith based, when clearly they tie everything to their perverted version of Islam, either means he thinks we are not paying attention, or he's not.

    Or he is smarter and more strategic than you are. By refusing to acknowledge ISIS as 'real' Islam he takes away ISIS primary claim to legitimacy and hands that legitimacy to the moderate Muslims (ie Jordan) that will join in the fight against ISIS.

  22. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    Fighting them in the streets? What silly notion is this? Are you trying to run for the Republican nomination or something?

    Speaking of the Republican nomination I have to laugh that the Chicken hawk Commander-in-Chief wannabes when asked what they would do against ISIS list specifics pretty much right along the lines that which Obama is currently pursuing.

  23. And what about hot showers and hot baths... on Research Suggests That Saunas Help You Live Longer · · Score: 1

    I don't see why sauna's would be somehow different.

  24. Re:White balance and contrast in camera. on Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black? · · Score: 2

    I am fairly convinced that those that claim the dress to be "distinctly blue" are just trolling the rest and extracting some weird sort of pleasure from it. The interesting aspect of this story is that there are sooo many people willing to troll others.

  25. Re:One thing for sure on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 1

    Mark 10:21 was a challenge to a wealthy man, who subsequently failed said test. Luke 14:26 is a statement as to how you should prioritize Christianity over the objections/demands of anyone else, including your own family.

    And you are that wealthy man! You are most likely well within the 1% circle of privileged individuals on this planet. Not to mention Jesus allegedly repeated this command over and over... for example Luke 12:33 and Luke 14:33 and via parables such as the Pearl of Great Price or the Lazarus and the Rich man.